flaccid
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
flaccid
adj 1: drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness; "a
flaccid penis"
2: out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion
or endurance; "he was too soft for the army"; "flabby around
the middle"; "flaccid cheeks" [syn: {soft}, {flabby},
{flaccid}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
flaccid \flac"cid\ (fl[a^]k"s[i^]d or fl[a^]s"s[i^]d), a. [L.
flaccidus, fr. flaccus flabby: cf. OF. flaccide.]
Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft
and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid
muscle; flaccid flesh.
[1913 Webster]
Religious profession . . . has become flacced. --I.
Taylor.
-- {flac"cid*ly} (fl[a^]k"s[i^]d*l[y^] or
fl[a^]s"s[i^]d*l[y^]), adv. -- {flac"cid*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "flaccid":
anemic, asthenic, bloodless, chicken, cowardly, debilitated,
drooping, droopy, dull, effete, emasculated, etiolated, faint,
faintish, feeble, flabby, flimsy, floppy, gone, gutless, imbecile,
impotent, languid, languorous, lax, limber, limp, listless, loose,
lustless, marrowless, nerveless, pithless, pooped, powerless,
relaxed, rubbery, sapless, sapped, sinewless, slack, sleazy, soft,
spineless, strengthless, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, weak,
weakened, weakly
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